# Committee on the Judiciary v. McGahn **Status: stub — expand.** **No. 19-5331 (D.C. Cir.).** The House Judiciary Committee's suit to enforce its subpoena to former White House Counsel [[Don McGahn]], and the reason the central question of House civil subpoena enforcement is still open in 2026. The procedural history is the point. The district court ordered McGahn to appear in November 2019. A D.C. Circuit panel held the Committee lacked Article III standing; the **en banc** court reversed on standing in August 2020. On remand the panel then held, on 31 August 2020, that the Committee had **no cause of action** to seek judicial enforcement at all. The full court took the case en banc again in October 2020, **vacating that opinion**, and the parties settled and voluntarily dismissed before rehearing was decided. The result is that the House has a precedent for *standing* and no precedent for a *cause of action* — the vacated panel opinion is the only appellate reasoning on the question and it is no longer law. The Senate has a statute ([[Congressional Subpoena Enforcement Flow]], Route C); the House has a resolution and an argument. ## See also - [[Congressional Subpoena Enforcement Flow]] · [[Committee on the Judiciary v. Miers]] · [[Don McGahn]] · [[Congressional Oversight]] · [[Executive Privilege]]